Post by Lee on Jun 10, 2014 2:36:23 GMT
33:1 "When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled"
The spoiler most closely related to Isaiah’s and Hezekiah’s time was the Assyrian, whose operations under Sennacherib threatened the overturn of the Kingdom of David, in the names of the gods of Assyria as against “the God of Jerusalem.” But, as Isaiah by the Spirit spoke and wrote for all ages and generations of the future, as well as for his own, we are warranted in regarding Sennacherib’s invasion, the pointed “controversy of Zion” of his days, and the angelic smiting of his army, as a type of the greater invasion, the greater controversy, and the much greater overthrow of the Assyrian of the latter days.
The Assyrian in Sennacherib’s day “ceased to spoil,” and was spoiled, when his army was destroyed, and Israel appropriated its substance. Afterwards Babylon “ceased to spoil,” and was spoiled by the Medes and Persians, whose leader, Cyrus, was a type of Christ. And of modern Babylon, which has spoiled the saints and the Jews for centuries, it is written: “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.” “Reward her, even as she rewarded you.” “Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her” (Rev. 13:10; 18:6, 20). This is connected with the “war of the Lamb” (17:14), and is related to the operations of the Northern Spoiler on the Mountains of Israel (Ezek. 38), which are the immediate cause of the revelation of the Lord at the seat of war as the manifestation of the Father’s “presence” (5:20). When Gog and his hosts “cease to spoil” they become a spoil, their hosts are given to the birds and beasts as Yahweh’s “sacrifice,” their bones are buried, and their weapons burned, and Israel “shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God” (Ezek. 39:10). This will be a quietus to the “Jewish Question.”
From the foregoing and similar scriptures, it is evident that Isaiah’s picture of the ultimate fate of the spoilers includes the crisis of the latter days. So also does his prayer breathe the spirit of his brethren of the latter days:—“O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.” It is a test of the truth that it brings a man into sympathy with the prophets and apostles. The theologies of Christendom do not so. They deceive people as to their true estate, and delude them with false hopes, and therefore prevent them from waiting for Christ in the spirit of the prophets.
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (484–487
The spoiler most closely related to Isaiah’s and Hezekiah’s time was the Assyrian, whose operations under Sennacherib threatened the overturn of the Kingdom of David, in the names of the gods of Assyria as against “the God of Jerusalem.” But, as Isaiah by the Spirit spoke and wrote for all ages and generations of the future, as well as for his own, we are warranted in regarding Sennacherib’s invasion, the pointed “controversy of Zion” of his days, and the angelic smiting of his army, as a type of the greater invasion, the greater controversy, and the much greater overthrow of the Assyrian of the latter days.
The Assyrian in Sennacherib’s day “ceased to spoil,” and was spoiled, when his army was destroyed, and Israel appropriated its substance. Afterwards Babylon “ceased to spoil,” and was spoiled by the Medes and Persians, whose leader, Cyrus, was a type of Christ. And of modern Babylon, which has spoiled the saints and the Jews for centuries, it is written: “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.” “Reward her, even as she rewarded you.” “Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her” (Rev. 13:10; 18:6, 20). This is connected with the “war of the Lamb” (17:14), and is related to the operations of the Northern Spoiler on the Mountains of Israel (Ezek. 38), which are the immediate cause of the revelation of the Lord at the seat of war as the manifestation of the Father’s “presence” (5:20). When Gog and his hosts “cease to spoil” they become a spoil, their hosts are given to the birds and beasts as Yahweh’s “sacrifice,” their bones are buried, and their weapons burned, and Israel “shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God” (Ezek. 39:10). This will be a quietus to the “Jewish Question.”
From the foregoing and similar scriptures, it is evident that Isaiah’s picture of the ultimate fate of the spoilers includes the crisis of the latter days. So also does his prayer breathe the spirit of his brethren of the latter days:—“O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.” It is a test of the truth that it brings a man into sympathy with the prophets and apostles. The theologies of Christendom do not so. They deceive people as to their true estate, and delude them with false hopes, and therefore prevent them from waiting for Christ in the spirit of the prophets.
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (484–487